Do you re-read books?

[Leeny]

Just a simple question... that I stole from another forum... Shhh... don't tell them...

[Sparkles]

I re-read everything! I get bored easily...

[Dawnfire]

I re-read every book that I like. That's how I know I like it.

[Soccy]

I never reread books, unless I read them so long ago I forget everything that happens. It's just so boring for me when you know everything that's going to happen. That's why I hate school books, I've read most of them already.

[Vampyre]

I reread books that I really like! That reminds me...I should really get a copy of City of Bones and City of Ashes. I've borrowed Bones, like 3 times already.:D

[TeddyBearQueen]

I don't usually re-read book, I do every now and then if I don't have a book to read...or if I'm really bored..but since I read really fast, its hard to re-read books cause I know exactly what happens next..I tend to memorize themes of pages so its like oh i remember reading this and what i was doing and how i felt XD

[PrincessAsh]

!!!! I re-read books alllllllll the time! If the next book in the series is coming out, and I've forgot somethings, I'll re-read them. Or if there's just a series I really like, and don't have much other books to read, I'll re-read them. In fact, I just read Princess Academy today for the second time. :D

[You stupid boy]

I re-read just about every book I read. Unless it was really, really rubbish.

That having been said, I have not re-read Deathly Hallows yet. I just find it too sad.

[Kestrel]

I only re-read the ones I really really like. Like Artemis Fowl, Charlie Bone and Lord of the Rings :D

[Dawnfire]

Yeah, only the ones I really like.

[Vampyre]

Yeah...I don't even know how many times I've reread Harry Potter. XD

[Sparkles]

I re-read Lord of the Rings at least once a month XD. Now I'm starting to read Inkheart.

[Kali]

I re-read books all the time.

[QueenTheatrics]

I re-read books tons of times over! That's what I buy them for!

[TeddyBearQueen]

That's why I don't usually like buying books cause its hard for me to re-read books that I know exactly what will happen...

[Leeny]

That makes sense, why buy something if you're going to use it once.

[Dawnfire]

I'll only buy the book if I really like it. Like the whole Warriors series. And the Alchemyst series.

[QueenTheatrics]

I don't buy books. I get my Mum and Dad to buy them for me.

[TeddyBearQueen]

same here, my parents buy em for me XD :) ;)

[Leeny]

Psh. The money that I spend on books each year? Yeah, my parents would never buy me books!

[Sparkles]

I'm going to have to get my own books instead.

[PotatoesRule]

The only books I read are the ones my teacher assigns me. I only found CB cause it was on the table shinning with its sparkleness. XD

CB is the only books I actually like and re-read. I never re-read any other books.

[QueenTheatrics]

I've read a book called The Folk of the Faraway Tree 14 times. It's not very long but it is so good! It was my Mum's before me.

[You stupid boy]

My parents refuse to buy me books. :p I use the library.

Faraway Tree is luffs. <3

[QueenTheatrics]

Oh yes, it sure is! But my Mum had it when she was wee so she's drawn all over it.

[You stupid boy]

I opened my mum's really old version of The Secret Garden to find she'd drawn in it, aged like 12. It was pretty. :)

[QueenTheatrics]

My Mum coloured some of it in...

[CharlieOlivia10]

I reread alot of series because it used to keep me busy. Like I've reread the CB series once, HP series like 10 times, and I've reread a few single books but I can't remember the names.

[QueenTheatrics]

I usually buy series of books so I can read them ALL AGAIN!!!!!!! FUNNESS!!!!

[Sazza]

i have to re-read books cos i get so exited by the storyline i read it too fast and it kinda washes over me and i end up not understanding parts...:(
plus i love re-reading books. it was so weird going back to 'midnight for CB' after reading the others cos the endowed were all sitting together and dorcas was friendly etc

[You stupid boy]

You always pick up little hints and details you missed the first time around, too. I find that with Harry Potter 5 - that locket...:p

[QueenTheatrics]

I've read Twilight 4 times and the 4th time around, I was picking up things I'd never seen before. Important things... :p See, the first times, I was reading so fast I never really picked some of it up.

Like that bit in it with the bottle cap he's spinning. I had to go back and read that whole section again to understand it. :D

[Sazza]

i love it when there is something i understand when i have read it all the way through that i didn't before, and i go 'oh! it all makes sense!' :D

[Leeny]

Or if you read a whole series and then go back and in one of the first books there's a little thing that you missed, but it ends up being significant in one of the later books. I always think, "The author's been planning that all along!"

[Sazza]

yes! its really weird when things are so different at the beginning yet similar. :)

[Qwill]

I reread everything when i'm in the mood.

[Sazza]

its never as good when you are re-reading a book as the surprise and suspense you get when reading it the first time because you know whats going to happen...:(

[TeddyBearQueen]

I know, thats why I really don't reread books.

But the dark hills divide ((hah thats the name I knew I got it wrong before)) I own it, and now I foudn out that there were sequels...so I'm rereading it to refresh what happened, come to think about I don't think I ever finsihed it XD

[Kestrel]

I've reread Lord of the Rings, Artemis Fowl, a few Charlie Bone and very few others :D

[QueenTheatrics]

I re-read practically every book I own. :p

[endowedgirl1997]

I've reread all my books at least six times!

[Sazza]

i've re-read cb more times than any of my other books. but thats mostly cos all my other faves are reeeeaaaally long and i cant be bothered as much to re-read them! :p

[nevermore]

I actually don't consider a book "good" unless I find myself wanting to re-read it. Books that I've only read once, and never wanted to revisit, are "meh" on my list. I re-read books the way other people listen to favorite songs. *nod*

[sumi_rox97]

I don't re-read the whole book. i just re-read the good bits!

[Sazza]

I actually don't consider a book "good" unless I find myself wanting to re-read it. Books that I've only read once, and never wanted to revisit, are "meh" on my list. I re-read books the way other people listen to favorite songs. *nod*

me too! ;):D;)

[Qwill]

I can tell when I need a book. I describe what my mood is

[Sazza]

if i have to wait for a book to come out before i can read it i become obsessed with it. like, i look for pictures etc. on the internet all day long...its kinda sad. :o

[Qwill]

Same with me....

[Sazza]

yay! im not the only one! *huggles* :p

[cloud]

I sometimes re-read a book, but it only gets boring and boring everytime i read it. I re-read boks wich i enjoy, those never get boring.:p But i only read the funny and exiting parts. :)

[Sazza]

yeah, there are some boring bits that i always miss out when i re-read books cos i cant wait to get onto the good bits. :D

[Midnight]

When I am finished a book, if it's good, I read it again and again.

[nevermore]

that's the cool part about re-reading... you know what parts you can skim through. :D

My most re-read book was The Secret Garden. My aunt and I had a bit of a joke between us because any time we'd go to the beach together over the summer, I would ALWAYS be reading the secret garden (I love bringing books to the beach and just lounging in the sun with the waves... mmmm). I quite literally read my copy of the secret garden to pieces, and I told her when it happened. That christmas I opened up a brand new copy with all the original illustrations (my copy was an unillustrated paperback). The close second to the secret garden would have to be the harry potter series. Well... the earlier books more than the later ones, because any time a new book would come out I'd re-read the series, so Sorcerer's Stone (I know... I'm american, it's a habit to call it that) was read at least ten times, where Deathly Hallows has only been read twice, to date. But if you put them all together, I'm sure I've read some form of Harry Potter at least fifty times.

ASOUE, on the other hand, is one of my favorite series EVER, but I've only read the last one once. I'm not kidding, after I finished it, I couldn't talk about it for like, two days, because every time I tried I just started bawling my eyes out. I plan to revisit it sometime in the near future, but I'll definitely have to prepare myself for the waterworks. I have never been so moved by an ending in my entire life... well... maybe Harry Potter as close second, but ASoUE might (might) have harry potter beat in the ending department... I'd have to read them back to back to decide once and for all, though.

[Sazza]

ASOUE doesn't make me cry. it's not really that sad, cos it is humerous in parts :)
when i read twilight i really didn't want to re-read it cos it made me cry so much. but i did...and felt slightly depressed all day afterwards :(

[QueenTheatrics]

...

Was Twilight supposed to be sad?

[Sazza]

i found it really sad but i dont think it was supposed to be :D

[Qwill]

My Rereading Records:
CB and the Hidden King: 44 times
The Thief Lord 23 times

[QueenTheatrics]

:eek:

The Thief Lord is really good!

[Sazza]

i've seen the movie of 'the thief lord'. i really loved it! :D

[QueenTheatrics]

It was ok...

But it wasn't as good as the book. Nothing ever is...

[Sazza]

i reckon the book will make me cry. i almost cried when that rich guy was mean to his son. it was so unfair and horrible! :(

[QueenTheatrics]

Have you not read the book?

[Sazza]

no. i never knew there was a book :o

[QueenTheatrics]

:eek:

*shockhorror*

You must read the book. It's so much better than the film. *nod*

[Qwill]

Yeah! And it has a LOT more "romance" between Prop and Hornet

[QueenTheatrics]

I haven't read it for years, honestly...

[Qwill]

The bookw as published only 9 years ago!

[QueenTheatrics]

I don't own it, but if I did, I'd read it again...

[Qwill]

*leands Charz my well read copy*
Here you go

[QueenTheatrics]

Um... Thanks, but that doesn't really help me. :p

[Qwill]

Go to a bookstore and get a copy.

[QueenTheatrics]

Maybe later. That involves moving.

[Qwill]

you ahve a teleporting machine?

[QueenTheatrics]

Nope. I want one though. They had one in the Simpsons...

ONTOPICNESS: I've read the last Harry Potter boks 12 times!

[Sazza]

i dont count how many times i re-read a book. i think its quite sad you guys know how many times you've re-read a book! :p

[Qwill]

I read the secodn HAryr Potter book 15 times!~

[QueenTheatrics]

That's the only book that I actually know. I only count with movies. :p

[Qwill]

oh figures

[QueenTheatrics]

Yeah, cause movies take up, like, 2 hours of my life, and books are just sort of...

Default. You don't think about reading them. You just DO.

[Qwill]

I was reading abook by KAte elliot it's about a third of the bible thick and I read it ten times

[Sazza]

i tend not to re-read really long books cos i cant be bothered. but i read thinner books hundreds of times! :D

[Kingdom Hearts]

i have read ALL the kingdom heart book atlest 100 times

[cloud]

I always skip the boring parts and skip to the exiting and funny parts

[kaylin16]

I always re-read my books, because when you go back you might have missed something.

[BurningFire]

I re-read my books because I miss half of the important stuff out.

[amypops]

Same. I re-read books a lot. Especially Peter Pan. Its scary.

Honestly. Read the whole pirate ship scene, on a dark night, with a torch, with the rain thundering in the background. Even freakier, chapter 10. The way Peter and Wendy talk to each other... the whole book is kinda scary, when you start to find all these hidden meanings in it the more you read it...

Nobody's believing me, are they?

[Julia Ingledew]

I always try to re-read a good book! Once I know how a story ends, I enjoy looking for all of the foreshadowing the second time around. It's so fun to know something that the characters don't! Although sometimes I wish I could just rush in and help them if I know something will go wrong. Ah, to enter the world inside a book! It sounds a bit like Charlie's endowment, doesn't it?

[TeddyBearQueen]

OMG, I know that feeling!! Haha. I tend to do that when I read, I sink into the world of words...its amazing! I fall into the pages of the book, kinda like in Inkheart..not that the last two books were great...but still good point. I take perspectives of one of my favorite characters (the first person I related to was you Ms. Ingledew) and so its just really fun. Wishing to be in the character's position...awsome!

[Sazza]

yes, i always do that, and surprise, surprise, it's nearly always the evil characters that i relate to, just cos i'm strange like that. :D
though actually i tend to do it more when i'm reading a book for the first time than the second. i don't know why :rolleyes:

[QueenTheatrics]

Sazzabeans, I do that too. I relate to the eeevviiilll characters as well.

We are truly evil at heart. Never forget that. *solemn nod*

[Sazza]

um...thanks. i'll sleep well tonight knowing that :D

[Uncle Paton]

I re-read a lot of history books to get more information from them. Isn't it funny how the first time you read a book you miss some things?

[TeddyBearQueen]

I know!! I read this book called the Witch's Son...it was the only amazing book that I re-read four times! It was that good! I mean, I'm not the type to re-read books because I think its too predictable, but this one...was just worth it! One of the best book I've ever read. It has all the little fairytales all of them...and its not even the right ones we learned...its a whole new view of it all. It was truely amazing to read. I made my dad go to Barnes and Nobles to buy it for me. So I'll re-read it again eventually. :D

[.:Emma.Tolly:.]

I do love to re-read books. Sometimes I'm afraid to move on to new ones, I love my old ones so much!

[Charlie Bone]

I sometimes re-read books. I'm not that big of a reader.

[Espionage]

Oh yes... You wouldn't believe how many times I've read Edward and Bella's wedding scene over and over... *sighs*

[sunlight]

I uselly re read books if they are good

I have read the books in the twilght saga over 20 times each and i only started reading them at the end of last year!!! xD Wow i am obbssesed! :D When i finish one i move on to the next, until i get to the end of the series and start all over again :p

[QueenTheatrics]

Blegh, yucky. :p

I've read the Harry Potter series tons and millions of times, and I've got them all on disc so I can put them on my iPod and listen to them. :D

[Sazza]

Thats...normal...:p

I have to say that the most frequently read book in my shelf is probably CB. In particular, the first one, because I just love to go back to it and remember how everyone was like back then :D

[QueenTheatrics]

The book I read most is probably...

The Folk of the Faraway Tree...

It's literally falling apart. It was my mum's, and she's drawn in it, like the rebel that she is. :p

[JellyBean_xx]

i re-read everything o_o and no one understands why. D:

[Sazza]

My friend says to me that I can't read my books much, because they are all in near perfect condition. But I do read them all the time, it's just that I'm always very gentle with all my books and take great care not to tear or crease them *nerdiness* :)

[ZigZag]

Not me, my books are always bent, dog-eared and a tiny bit food stained.

[Leeny]

My friend says to me that I can't read my books much, because they are all in near perfect condition. But I do read them all the time, it's just that I'm always very gentle with all my books and take great care not to tear or crease them *nerdiness* :)

:eek: You are my new best friend! *huggles* I keep my books the same way! My friends are afraid to read my books because they fear that they'll damage them.

[Sazza]

Lol, I'm terrified of damaging my friend's/library's books when I borrow them, even if they don't take care of them themselves. I'm such a book freak :p

[You stupid boy]

I'm the opposite, my books are a wreck. You should see my copy of Goblet of Fire, you'd get nightmares. xD I do love them though. Obviously there are some people who are very very careful with books, like you Leeny and you Sazza, but mostly I find books in perfect condition a very sad sight.

[Sazza]

I never get that. I always find books that are trashed a very sad sight :p

[Kalik2486]

Why ever not re-read a book? If it's an enticing book, definitely go ahead and re-read it! If you run out of books to read, go on and do so. So many reasons...

Haha... books are meant to be read, and that means to open them. You just have to be careful not to destroy them hehe...:')

[TheSilentOne]

I will reread books, but I'll wait a long time between the first time I read them and when I reread them.

[ZigZag]

I'm the opposite, my books are a wreck. You should see my copy of Goblet of Fire, you'd get nightmares. xD I do love them though. Obviously there are some people who are very very careful with books, like you Leeny and you Sazza, but mostly I find books in perfect condition a very sad sight.

You should see my copy of Order of the Phoenix. It's in two pieces, had no cover and has a couple pages that a ripped and put back together with scotch tape.

Clearly I'm an abusive book-owner. :rolleyes:

[nevermore]

Well, like Dumbledore said at the beginning of Quiddich Through the Ages "the book has generally been pawed over, spilled on, and dropped by any number of students. A fine honor for any book." Or something like that. The gist was that the sign of a good book is that it's trashed.

I have a weird policy. Hardcovers are treated like rare gems. Especially my antique books, I get scared to breathe too hard when I read them :rolleyes: But paperbacks are fair game. I dog-ear the pages, hold them open with water pitchers and crack the spines, and once I even took a particularly old thrashed paperback (I bought it for a quarter from the library) into a sauna with me, and by the time I came out an hour later it looked like I'd been reading it at the bottom of a pool. :D

[Malz]

I have 2 books that i re-read all the time.

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. I keep this book wiht me at all times. Right now it is in the bathroom because i was reading it in the tub (paperback of course). I have owned this book for years and i never get tired of it. I have basically memorized it line by line but oh i love it so!

East by Edith Pattou. I cant even describe how much i love this book. It never ever gets old and always surprises me even when i have read it so many times. This one has been stained and dog eared, but i still treat it like some priceless treasure.

You see, i have never to my clock this line-up of about 5 or 6 of my most highly treasured and used books. Those two arent even in it because i read them so much that they are always somehwere else. *sigh* if you have never read those..... you will get as addicted to them as i have. Espeically East. It is a pretty big book but it flys by. And the way it was written just keeps you on every line. :p

*is done with her ranting*

[ZigZag]

My most reread books are the Harry Potter books. And, this is an odd one, The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard. It's a fantastic book I highly recommend to all the girls on this forum. It's about a thirteen year old girl living in New York after the aftermath of 9/11. She moves to live with her estranged father in California, and it's all about what she learns there. It's absolutely fantastic.

[nevermore]

My most re-read is The Last Unicorn (which sadly I lent to a friend over a year ago and never got back... then I moved... now it's a lost cause. I plan on asking for a new copy for my birthday), followed by The Secret Garden (which I literally read to pieces when I was younger and had to replace with a new copy).

[Aspentree]

I can't re read books i perfer them when they can surprise you then after you've read them you can't be surprised again

[ZigZag]

That's true. I don't re-read nothing books, like pulp fiction or murder mysteries. I re-read the books that make me feel something, even if those feelings are sad. Because reading an emotional book is a wild ride, and I like going through it again and again.

[Aspentree]

I suppose you're right but i just can't re-read a book i have tried numerous times but i always put it down and beg my mom to go to the public library the next day.

[ZigZag]

I guess that ultimately it's just a matter of personal preference.

[pjy310]

I almost always re-read books. I've read HP books about 5 times, CB books about...more than I could count! I only get my parents to buy books that I really like.